Lessons Will Be Learned

We live in a country where children are being taken off treatment lists without being informed; where children have to campaign for their own autism services yet at the same time, we are able to squander billions of taxpayers money without a care in the world.

As covered in a recent post, here are some of the known areas where public funds have been squandered by this government.

Remember, these are the ones we know about and there doesn’t seem to be a rush from anyone other than independent journalists to uncover more.

A bike shelter that doesn’t even shelter bikes from the rain has cost the taxpayer €336,000. A cost-effective alternative that would have actually kept bikes dry was also rejected. We can only wonder why?
A security hut at the entrance to government buildings costs €1.4m with design alone – essentially a drawing of a box – costing almost €100k.
Now modular homes for refugees – essentially fancy prefabs – are costing the taxpayer more than €440k each – that’s 1.4 times the cost of a house in County Galway.
Let’s not forget the infamous printer at Dail Eireann that cost €2 million and then couldn’t fit in the room.
And then there’s the biggest calamity of them all – the Children’s Hospital – which was to be completed in 2019 at a cost of €650m. It now will probably cost in excess of €2.4bn won’t be delivered til June 2025 according to the latest “commitment” from the developers.

The reality is the government have taken their eye off the ball – they are so focused on woke nonsense like introducing anit-democratic Hate Speech laws, trying to erase motherhood from the constitution and being the lapdogs of Europe that they’ve forgotten to get the most basic things right. To make matters worse for the last number of weeks – instead of working – they are out canvassing to save their hides, trying to buy an election, the date of which remains a privileged secret.

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Asylum Profiteering - Another lesson to be learned?

Dublin Bay South Candidate Nick Delehanty is worth a follow on X. Nick seems determined to actual lessons will be learned and has uncovered a whole warren of interesting material on political connections with those benefiting from the waves of asylum facilities being created in Ireland. What interest is being served?

Separately, it seems someone is trying to impede journalist Ken Foxe from getting access to more information relating to Budget 2025 with ridiculous FOI fees in place as likely deterrent to a journalist trying to serve the public interest. Maybe a lesson someone is trying to avoid? Keep an eye on the work of Nick and Ken, both have been quite productive in holding this government to account.

If anyone would like to contact me to discuss this or anything else on this website, I can be reached at paul@paulmadden.ie.

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